This cigar insert is of Salmon P Chase who was a U S Senator,Governor of Ohio, Supreme Court Chief Justice and U S Secretary of Treasury during the Civil War. The item is encased in shrink wrap on what appears to be an archival backing. There is a Certificate of Authenticity from American Antique Graphics Society in Medina Ohio. I have checked and it is a lithograph. Forgive the duplication. For unknown reasons my software refused to let me delete it.

GEORGE KUNKEL was elected over Judge Jacobs in the most vigorous political campaign ever waged in Dauphin County up to that time. Judge Kunkel took office in January 1904. He was reelected and served until his death in June 1920. He had been a former member of the legislature and District Attorney. Judge Kunkel was a great orator and a keen student of the law. He could express the law in choice but simple and terse language. It was said of him that he could condense in one sentence the phosphorescence of a page. In the case of Joseph M. Huston, the architect who designed the State Capitol and was convicted of cheating and defrauding the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with respect to the furnishings of that building, Judge Kunkel wrote a seven page opinion refusing a new trial. The Superior Court in affirming Judge Kunkel’s decision, wrote a thirty-nine page opinion. Trial of this case consumed many weeks. During his term many important cases affecting state taxation and the administrative affairs of the state government were decided, including the Capitol Graft cases, to which reference will later be made. Judge Kunkel was held in high esteem, not only by the members of his own bar, but by the bar of the entire state. His son, George Kunkel, Jr., is a member of the Dauphin County Bar, a County Commissioner and a former member of the State Senate.

This link shows when he made his bid for the State Supreme Court. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1126&dat=19200401&id=_qFRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B2gDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3088,4711594

Six buttons in this lot. Michael J Ryan for Governor, Boies Penrose for Senator, Bill Casey for Governor, a Scott McGonigle tab, Shafer word button and I'm for George celluloid, whoever that was. Georgia looks good on the front but is flattened on the back.

Second generation Kennedys run for public office. Joe Kennedy for Congress buttons and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend for Congress in 1990. Older Americans for Kathleen is a two inch well made celluloid, the other button not so much with the gray areas showing through on the cheap paper. The well made Joe Kennedy button measures one and 3/4 of an inch. The other button is damaged by time as can be seen in the scan. Tab has some wear.

7/8 of an inch celluloid. Tiny brown spot and at 10 o'clock a celluloid dig. Here is some information found of the web about this candidate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Edward_Willard

Willard served for eight years in the Virginia House of Delegates, prior to his election as the 19th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. He held that office from 1902 through 1906, leaving after an unsuccessful run for Governor. He then assumed the office of commissioner of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, serving for four years. In 1913, he was appointed by Woodrow Wilson as the United States Ambassador to Spain. His daughter was married to Kermit Roosevelt. He died in 1924.

Nice graphic ticket for Natt Head and Joshua G Hall for Congress along with Dudley C Coleman for Senator. Others. Measures seven and a half plus inches by four inches. Rag paper, light staining and nip out of bottom left hand corner and other minor wear.

Clymer made an unsuccessful run for Governor in 1866 on a White Supremacist ticket. Excellent condition with very minor wear. Going up Salt River is an antiquated phrase which for 100 years meant that they person was going to lose or had lost.

5/8 of an inch litho button with some wear. Here is some information from Wikipedia:

Arthur Emanuel Nelson (May 10, 1892 – April 11, 1955) was an American lawyer and politician.

He graduated from Macalester College in 1912 and William Mitchell College of Law (then the St. Paul College of Law) in 1915.[1] He also served briefly in the U.S. Army from August to November 1918.

Nelson was elected Mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1922. He served one four-year term. Nelson unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate as a Republican in 1928 against Henrik Shipstead (receiving 33.4% of the vote), but won fourteen years later. He was elected in November 1942 to finish out the term of deceased Senator Ernest Lundeen, which had temporarily been filled by appointee Joseph H. Ball (who won the November 1942 election for the full six-year term from 1943 to 1949). Nelson served less than two months, from November 18, 1942 to January 3, 1943. He never sought re-election.

Light laid paper item with the masthead of the Ohio State Democratic Central and Executive Committee. Addressed to John Bull, Esq and signed by Clark Irvine and copy to C N Vallandigham. This item can be folded along the original folds and mailed in a envelope for the price of a stamp, if the buyer desires.

This beat up item was actually issued as a supplement of the Sunday Inquirer when Stuart was a Republican candidate for Governor of Pa. Multiple tears, some of which was trimmed off at the top. Creases and other wear. Measures around 10 and a half by 12 inches.

Edwin Stuart was Mayor of Philadelphia for the years 1891-1895 and Governor of Pennsylvania for the years 1907-1911.

Jesse M. Unruh, a flamboyant Democratic politician who for a time wielded national influence from his base in California government, died of cancer Tuesday night at his home in Marina del Rey, Calif. He was 64 years old.

From an impoverished childhood in West Texas, Mr. Unruh rose to prominence in the California Assembly, of which he was Speaker from 1961 to 1968. A blunt-speaking virtuoso of backroom politics, Mr. Unruh earned a reputation as the one of the most influential state legislators in the land.

In his heyday he was second only to the Governor in power in the state. He was credited with molding the State Legislature into a well-staffed, full-time body that some political scientists described as a model.'

This comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from a dealer but because I don't take this seriously I checked and it is a lithograph. It measures 9 by 6 and a half inches. Shunk wrapped on what looks like an acid free board so will mail like this. It will require priority mailing due to the overall size.

This lot consists of a celluloid button which measures one and 3/4 of an inch and a ribbon which measures six and a half inches. The button has surface scratches and is missing the pin. Paper for Bastian Brothers is present. The ribbon reads "The Old War Governor" with his portrait and below that "Kirkwood Club", Davenport Iowa Top has some wear where there was a pin and is just a tad dingy. Samuel J Kirkwood was Governor during the Civil War and I'm guessing that these items were made for a possible local political club in Davenport or possibly even for a Civil War reunion of Veterans. Either way I think it is a special grouping for a local collector.

Excellent condition on this flasher for Senator John Tunney from California. This was for a Senate campaign in 1976 which he did not win. I tried to get my scanner to show Tunney's picture but it refused.

Two items in this lot, the pamphlet, "If I am elected governor there will be no sales tax," and a signed letter on campaign letterhead. See scans to view the condition of the letter. There are pencil markings on the back where someone has used it for addition.

There are two documents in this lot. The first is on the State of Missouri letterhead dated November 4, 1884 informing John J Russell that he had won his race in the general election. Signed by the Secretary of State Mitchell McGrath. Complete but two very heavy folds. The color of this document in the scan bears no relation to the actual document. My scanner has a mind of its own. The second document was too long to fit in the scanner. Governor Crittenden is certifying the election of the electors that have been elected to certify the election of the President and Vice President of the United States in 1884. The Governor did not sign the document. Good condition.

Three photographs in this lot which includes a tintype and two photographs at different stages in his life. The tintype has a couple of small indentations. The back identifies him and other photographers notes in pencil. The sepia photograph measures 7 and a half by 5 and a half inches. Some glue smears and bottom crease. The aged Russell photograph measures 8 X 10 inches with no condition problems.

Handsome portraits of the Hon Robert L Owen and the Hon Thomas Pryor Gore on the cover of the Youth's Companion-New England Edition dated Nov. 21 1907. I thought there might be an article on them but there is none. Someone cut an ad out of one of the back pages. Other than that pretty clean. Will be folded along the original fold for mailing.